Bath News Roundup Highlights Local Events and Concerns
City fairs season opens with notes on local business demand for cucumbers peaches and plums. Bath baseball loss to Wiscasset. Montrose W Houck schooner sails with ice cargo. Prohibition drive by Bath WCTU urges transport to polls. Caroling traffic safety at Blind crossing plus Bay area road and tax debates. New elm stands. pocket peddlers upset residents.
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Bath
Montrose W. Houck
Foresters
Cabots
Brunswick
Bath Union
Bar Harbhur
Eden
New England
Alleged Burglar Captured After Residence Loot Found
Harold DeLong of North Street spotted a suspicious man at the Charles McLellan residence. Captain Wallace chased and arrested the intruder carrying a case of stolen jewelry and valuables. The suspect, Archie Davis from Massachusetts, was bound over to the December term. other stolen items traced to Bath and Androscoggin County.
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Harold DeLong
North Street
Charles McLellan
Wallace
McLellan
Mr. Delong
Judith Dunton
Archie Davis
Massachusetts
Grand
Marshal McFadden
Portland
Bath
Davis
B. F. Savage
High Street
Sheriff Low
Androscoggin County
Rockland
Reducing the deficit at People's Ferry Company
Bath and Woolwich ownership of the People's Ferry Company shows a potential dividend as auto traffic across the Kennebec surges this season. With up to forty vehicles per day at fifty cents each plus passenger fares, revenue improves the annual report.
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People’s Ferry Company
City of
Bath
Woolwich
Kennebec
Campaign War Hots Up Over No License Measure
The Aug 26 dispatch says Bath’s Democrat leader joins No License supporters with noted county figures aiding the drive. Rumors set $2,590 to be spent by license forces, but broader spending likely in Sagadahoc as work accelerates for both sides. Public sentiment favors No License while license advocates push early campaigning.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Miss Stella P Thomas Dies at Westport at 33
Miss Stella P Thomas of Westport died yesterday morning after a long illness. She was 33. Funeral at two this afternoon from the residence with interment in the family lot. She was daughter of the late James Thomas and leaves her mother Ruth A Thomas and two brothers James of Salem Massachusetts and Frank of Westport. She had been a patient sufferer for six years and was highly respected in town.
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Stella P. Thomas
Westport
James Thomas
Ruth A. Thomas
James
Salem
Mass
Frank
Bath Iron Works Glass Contract Sets Record
The Standard Glass Company of Boston set over 1700 panes in seven days for the Bath Iron Works foundry project, beating its own record. The job was completed ahead of the contract’s Saturday night deadline with Bath glaziers employed on site. Bath’s new hotel is in sight.
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Standard Glass Company of
Boston
Bath Iron Works
Bath Glaziers
GOOD PALL GUNNING EXPECTS GREAT SPORT NEXT MONTH
Game Warden Fred A. Willis tours Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties collecting license fees from out of state gunners. The black duck flight remains heavy with Merrymeeting Bay full of waterfowl. Partridges and woodcocks are abundant, and a Bath veteran recalls scaring up a dozen partridges in a woods walk last week.
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Fred A. Willis
Sagadahoc
Lincoln
Guaine
Willis
Merrymeeting Bay
Society Gossip Highlights Local Visits and Moves
Miss Gertrude Barnes hosted Miss Emma Twombly of Dexter. Mrs. Sewall Percy of Buffalo arrived for a visit with her mother Mrs. Maude Pingress. Mr. and Mrs. William Dean moved to the Reed residence area. Miss Gertrude Lundrigan has gone to Essex Junction Vermont. Archie T Shorey and Philip R Shorey of New York enjoy a two week vacation at Foster’s Point and Orr’s Island. Both are Bath natives who worked for Bowdoin and now with the New York World. Shipping City girls and others visited Popham for the fair. Miss Florence Rand visited Portland. Mrs. Lottie Hodgkins and son Percy, ending a two week stay in Southport and Bath, depart for Somerville, Mass. They stayed with Alden P. Denham, her brother.
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MacMahan
Seal & Porpoise
Cottagers’ Association
William Reed Howe
Orange
N. J
William C. Redfield
Brooklyn
SCC
Tetalysand Otredsumer
HiAg Nealle
Boston
Mass
L. B. Masters
Dobbs Ferry
Arthur N. Taft
Colorado Springs
W. C. Allen
St. Paul
Minn
E. T. Martin
Brighton
Louise Donighan
Augusta
J. W. Fitzgerald
Margaret Fitzgerald
Maysville
George P. Tathell
Anna Falls
Bertha Milliken
Brooklines
Ays Harwood
Rochester
N. Y
Howard Giles
New York City
Agnes W. Brace
Bangor
Mes
Ee Or. Fielding
E. A. White
Glen Ridge
Mabel Provost
Elizabeth
Whittemore
Englewood
Margaret Dexter
Poreth
Allen Whittemore
Irving Townsend
Arthur D. Welch
Louise Searle
Elizabeth Stafford
Margaret Whittemore
M. W. Ware
Townsend
Welch
Arthur Welch
Bowdoin College
Philip Little
Salem
Sheepscott
Mac Mahan
Little
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
City Art Museum of St. Louis
Society of Fine Arts of
Minneapolis
Bowdoin College Art Gallery
Washington, D. C
Haverhill
Swett Memorial Art Gallery
Portland
Poland Springs
Seacoast
MacMahan’s
Corcoran
Washington
New England
Gertrude Barnes
Emma Twombly
Dexter
Sewall Percy
Buffalo
Maude Pingress
William Dean
Percy
North Street
Reed
Gertrude Lundrigan
Essex Junction
Archie T
Philip R. Shorey
New York
Foster's Point
Orr's Island
Bath
Bowdoin
The
New York World
Shipping
Popham
Eleanor and
Katherine [Levdon
Mollie Palmer
Florence Rand
Lottie Hodgkins
Southport
Somerville
Alden P. Denham
Telephone Service Troubles Prompt Short Cable Fix
South End subscribers report interruptions to local telephone service. A 209 foot cable lay is proposed to restore reliable service. The Independent notes a Park concert and dance by Hobbs band drew a large crowd. A Grange Fair and Merchants Carnival proposal seems well received. Trolley excursion to Lewiston and Augusta, return via Boston steamer attracts many patrons with special Wednesday rates.
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South End
The
Independent
Hobb
Lewiston
Augusta
Boston
Fresh garden produce and farm poultry for sale in Maine
For sale in Winnegance Maine J F Apt& advertises ducks and geese dressed to order at 30 cents per pound chickens at 25 cents, green peas and corn, and yellow eye beans. Delivery available by telephone 268-5. Entry dated 8 26 It.
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Law
State Board of Trade
Pomona Grange
Enterprise Grange
Richmond
Bath Baseball Club
Wiscasset
Colonial Club
Georgetown
Anne M. Robinson
Jack McAuliffe
Maine
Franklin
Bath W. C
T. A
Young Campaigners For Prohibition
Shippsburg Centre
Popham Beach
Parker Head
Bath Y. M. C. A
Union
John C. Budd
Blind Crossing
Mr. Little
Mac-Mahan
Bath and
Gunners
D. & C. E. Scribner
Thompson Bros
Hamburg
Worth Tully
Conley’s Specialty Store
Gelery Seed
IRS
Swett’s
Woolwich I
Sagadahoc Pery
Albert Hathorns
B.A
Care of Times Office
Merrill
J. & Lynch
Newcastle
State OF
Masry J Mart
Stes Testey Lett Og A
Sili
Bewterd
Path
James Lowell
Beth
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